Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy praise above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

³ ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

⁴ what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and beauty.

⁶ Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷ all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

⁸ The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth!

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.

¹⁶ ¶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came and drew water to fill the troughs to water their father’s sheep.

¹⁷ But the pastors came and drove them away. Then Moses stood up and defended them and watered their sheep.

¹⁸ And when they returned unto Reuel, their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today?

¹⁹ And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the pastors and also drew water enough for us and watered the sheep.

²⁰ And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

²² And she gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershon, for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

⁶ ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

⁷ a woman came unto him having an alabaster box of very precious ointment and poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

⁸ But when his disciples saw it, they became indignant, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

⁹ For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.

¹⁰ But Jesus, understanding this, said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she has wrought a good work upon me.

¹¹ For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

¹² For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare for my burial.

¹³ Verily I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her.